The championship game of Australia’s top soccer league was mired in controversy Saturday by a software malfunction in the Hawkeye Video Assistant Referee system. Melbourne Victory defender James Donachie was visibly offsides on a free kick that immediately preceded teammate Kosta Barbarouses’ goal. The VAR review should have negated the goal, which proved to be the […]
In conjunction with the ongoing Australian Open, that country’s tennis governing body is, for the first time, publicly releasing a large batch of raw optical tracking data in hopes of crowdsourcing an automated solution for scoring matches. Tennis Australia is offering $8,500 (USD) in prize money to the top three entrants of this unique hackathon […]
The 100-year installation of the Copa America, the Copa America Centenario, will feature a piece of technology that those playing in 1916 could only dream of. Hawk-eye’s famous goal-line technology will be making its debut this year in the tournament held in the United States starting on June 3rd. Goal-line technology made its major tournament […]
Hawk-Eye is probably best known for supplying the goal-line technology for the FIFA World Cup in 2014, but the sports technology company is responsible for much more across the wide spectrum of sports. Ranging from ball tracking to broadcasting graphics among more than 20 different sports, Hawk-Eye has their hands in about every sector of the […]
